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- > > And where do I get hold of this GCC thingy? It looks like the 'micro c' is
- > > the one that is available.
- >
- > It took me all of two minutes to find it, thanks to www.altavista.com:
- > ftp://nic.funet.fi/pub/ham/dsp/dsp56k-tools/dsp56k-gcc.tar.Z
-
- And to much use for me. ;-(
-
- > That's the sources to a DSP56k port of gcc 1.37.1.
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- Is there a GCC version for every processor in the world? :-)
-
- > I know I've seen it compiled for the Atari machines _somewhere_...
-
- If someone finds it, please let me know. It could be fun to take a look
- at it. The'micro c' would be interesting too.
-
- > > > Some reasons why C wouldn't be a good idea:
- > >
- > > But it could still be used to something, or? Now, the DSP isn't used for
- > > anything in most programs. Waste of power if you ask me.
- >
- > Well, IMO most programs don't really do anything that the DSP could help
- > them very much with. You have to remember that the data transfer takes a
- > lot of time and the DSP is not very easy to use (or efficient) for many
- > ordinary things.
-
- Can't you use it to sort linked lists ;-) or other processing intensive
- tasks like unpacking pictures, packedfiles (LHarc, ZIP) etc.?
-
- The transfer can't be that low as there is MPEG players for both audio
- and movie.
-
- //Magnus Kollberg
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